When virus scans are there certain directories they skip?

[xrsolis at gmail.com (Xander Solis)]

Supposedly none. Because malware can always drop to those directories. Most
scanners I know of, do exclude certain files like text files from scanning.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Dimitrios Kapsalis <dimitrios at gmail.com>wrote:

> Was thinking this afternoon, when anti-virus scans run, are there certain
> directories that they always skip?
>
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